vain > empty; foolish manly > {Pertaining to human beings; also: manly, in the modern sense}
3 Nor devilish thoughts dismay your constant spirit. 4 In heavenly mercies have you not a part? 5 Why should you then despair, that chosen are? 6 Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace,
eke > in addition, also
7 Which does quench the brand of hellish smart,
smart > pain, grief
8 And that accursed handwriting does deface.
handwriting > (See Col. 2.14)
9 Arise, sir knight; arise, and leave this cursed place!"
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So vp he rose, and thence amounted streight.
2 Which when the carle beheld, and saw his guest
Would safe depart, for all his subtill sleight,
4 He chose an halter from among the rest,
And with it hung himselfe, vnbid vnblest.
6 But death he could not worke himselfe thereby;
For thousand times he so himselfe had drest,
8 Yet nathelesse it could not doe him die,
Till he should die his last, that is eternally.